A three year programme to replace all of the 33,000 sodium street lamps in Leicester with LEDs is underway. This week, the 1,000th street lamp was upgraded, as part of on-going work across the city by Leicester City Council. Street ...
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Fundamental changes in the UK retail industry as customers embrace new technology and new ways to shop are producing major changes in the relative importance of different payment methods. Customers did 10 per cent less of their shopping ...
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Osaka-based Panasonic Corp has developed a semiconductor white light source capable of outputting luminous flux in the 10,000-lumen class. The new technology will enable wider variation in design, higher brightness and a smaller form factor ...
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Research and Markets has added the Packaging for an Aging Population report to its offerings. This report assesses the implications of our aging society on packaging design and demonstrates ways in which manufacturers can address these ...
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Human interaction with computers could improve with the new Kinect for Windows sensor, which will be better at recognizing gestures, motion and voice. Developers will be able to write applications with the sensor, announced Thursday by ...
Digital Insurance, a US-based employee benefits-only agency, has signed a license agreement with Dominion Analytics to implement an assortment of analytical tools to enable employers assess, compare and gain more value from their benefits ...
Pharmaceutical business re-engineering solutions provider, Goose has introduced a new technology, called Goose Quality Manager, to help track and manage the deviations across product manufacturing lifecycles that can disrupt Good ...
Rail technology provider Bombardier Transportation has introduced the new Primove e-mobility system for the bus sector at the ongoing UITP World Congress in Geneva, Switzerland. The system allows the electric-bus to be inductively charged ...
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Efficient Power Conversion Corp (EPC) of El Segundo, CA, USA, which makes enhancement-mode gallium nitride on silicon (eGaN) power field-effect transistors (FETs) used in power management applications, has redesigned its website to include ...
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Researchers at Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, have found that unprocessed low-micronaire cotton surpasses other, higher grades of cotton in its ability to absorb oil, making it the most effective cotton-based solution for cleaning ...
In 2003, Yukos was preparing for a game-changing merger with another private Russian oil company, Roman Abramovich's Sibneft, to create a 2.3 million b/d Russian oil producing giant. The deal was scuppered, however, in large part because ...
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Raleigh, N.C.-based Xanofi — developer of XanoShear? nanofiber production technology targeted to filtration, acoustic and other nonwovens applications — has signed a 10-year agreement with Seika Corp. — a Tokyo-based ...
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We all know the siren call of eBay: The one-of-a-kind finds. The chance to score them at low prices. The excitement that comes with the potential of being outbid. It’s a regular thrill ride. And, for those of you searching for used ...
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Turkey should concentrate more on the Middle Eastern and African countries for exporting its home textiles, Ali Babacan, Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey said at the EVTEKS-Istanbul Home Textile Fair 2013, which recently concluded at ...
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GlassBuild America: The Glass, Window, & Door Expo is pleased to announce continued growth in the Innovative Product Promotion program featured once again at the 2013 trade show. The program is on track to exceed 2012’s sold out ...
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